Keeping Tabs on ‘Hate’ Through Google Searches

After events like the recent attacks in San Bernadino and Paris, Islamophobic sentiments tend to increase. Economist and former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz calls Google searches “a confessional box” that can gauge public sentiment on controversial views that polls and surveys can’t always measure.
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